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VIDEO: Chicago Teachers And Support Staff On Strike! »

October 25, 2019 | Chris Brooks

The Chicago Teachers Union and SEIU Local 73 are on strike for class size caps, fair wages, support for homeless students, affordable and sustainable housing, a nurse in every school and more counselors and librarians – and more!

Huge crowd gathered in the street in Montreal for climate strike.

How Seven Thousand Quebec Workers Went on Strike against Climate Change »

October 25, 2019 | Alain Savard

With a crowd of 500,000, Montreal’s march for the climate was the largest in the world during the September 20-27 week of climate action. Yet it was also noteworthy for another reason.

This webinar was held on October 21 at 8:00 p.m. EST. It was facilitated by Labor Notes board member and veteran organizer Ellen David Friedman.

VIDEO: White Terror in Hong Kong; Union Leaders Fired and Beaten and... Fighting Back »

October 22, 2019 | Chris Brooks

Within the massive and stunningly persistent social insurgency in Hong Kong against authoritarian domination, thousands of unionized workers are risking white terror... the threat of constant surveillance, discipline and loss of livelihood.

In this webinar, rank-and-file autoworkers debated whether to support the agreement and go back to work, or vote it down and stay out on the picket lines in the hope of achieving something better.

VIDEO: Rank-and-File Autoworkers Discuss the Tentative Agreement with GM »

October 21, 2019 | Chris Brooks

Forty-nine thousand auto workers are on strike at General Motors in the largest private sector strike since the last time union and company clashed, in 2007. Now, there is a tentative agreement with the company.

Crowd of GM workers on strike, marching.

GM Contract: 'Not What We Struck For' »

October 21, 2019 | Jane Slaughter

The Detroit Free Press did its bit Friday toward convincing GM workers to vote yes on their

UAW strikers picketing on a street corner.

Auto Workers Ask: If We Can’t Win It Now, When Will We? »

October 18, 2019 | Chris Brooks | Jane Slaughter

“They always say it will take multiple agreements to reach equality—we can’t win it all in one go,” said Sean Crawford, a second-tier worker at Flint Truck Assembly in Michigan.